June 5, 1968 ...

[Arthur Little]

... together with my first wife, mother-in-law, our Shetland Collie, Corrie and budgie, Trixie - all LONG gone - I moved into a brand new house ... and, 44 years later to the day, I'm still here! :Hellooo:

[Steve.r]

:xxgrinning--00xx3:

[stevewool]

... together with my first wife, mother-in-law, our Shetland Collie, Corrie and budgie, Trixie - all LONG gone - I moved into a brand new house ... and, 44 years later to the day, I'm still here! :Hellooo:

wow arthur, just goes to show how time flies, lots of memories you must have there, i will never make that long in my house its just 4 years ago last month for me, but lots of memories for me too

[grahamw48]

I think me and my son passed your house when we did our camping trip up your way Arthur. :Erm:

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Very Scottish. :D

Anyway well done Arthur, you certainly having staying power. :xxgrinning--00xx3:

[grahamw48]

In 1968 I was living in the front bedroom of my parents' house in York (arrowed)...with rather a nice 'grandstand' view of the race course. :)

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[bigmarco]

Definitely a place you call home Arthur :xxgrinning--00xx3:

[joebloggs]

44yrs :yikes: you must have got on with your neighbours :D

my mom bought her house back in 1963 ! and still owns it, thou doesn't live there no more.

[joebloggs]

44yrs :yikes: you must have got on with your neighbours :D

my mom bought her house back in 1963 ! and still owns it, thou doesn't live there no more.

[mickcant]

Wow Arthur 44 years in your home, you should know where everything is by now:cwm3:

I expect Myrna has well made her mark by now though:xxgrinning--00xx3:
Mick.:)

[lastlid]

... together with my first wife, mother-in-law, our Shetland Collie, Corrie and budgie, Trixie - all LONG gone - I moved into a brand new house ... and, 44 years later to the day, I'm still here! :Hellooo:

What did it cost then, Arthur? A few hundred quid?

[Arthur Little]

Wow Arthur 44 years in your home, you should know where everything is by now :cwm3:

:laughitupsmilie: ... are you kidding, Mick ... these days, I NEITHER know where my hearing aids - nor my specs - are!! :doh


I expect Myrna has well made her mark by now though :xxgrinning--00xx3:
Mick. :)

:) Spot-on, mate ... especially in the kitchen! But I can't complain ... :anerikke: ... nobody would listen! :NoNo: Seriously, though, the house has been spick 'n' span since the day following her arrival - a damn sight better than I'd ever kept it throughout the preceding 17 years of living alone as a widower. And I'm eating more healthily now (even if I am"putting on the beef"!) besides. ;)

[Arthur Little]

Yup ... I'm well-looked-after. :xxgrinning--00xx3:

[Arthur Little]

What did it cost then, Arthur? A few hundred quid?

Hmm ... well, all it cost me back then was a weekly rental of £3.10/-. (That's £3.50 in today's money, for the benefit of those members of two younger generations :D ... i.e. MOST on here!).

Yes ... the *semi-detatched was/is part of a high-quality housing development begun by the then Perth Town Council in late 1967, and completed in the Spring of '68.

So, me and my entourage at the time, were its *1st occupants.

:olddude: ... God knows (and I'm scared to check - for fear of giving myself a heart attack!) what the rents would be nowadays ... because - as the sitting tenant - in common with more than 90 percent of householders in the scheme, I was able to purchase the property for around £15K in 1991 ... earlier in the year my first wife unfortunately died. :bigcry:

[lastlid]

I was able to purchase the property for around £15K in 1991 ...

Possibly one of the benefits of the Thatcher years? :xxgrinning--00xx3:

[grahamw48]

In June 1967 my parents purchased a nice 3 bed semi with attached garage, fronting on to York Racecourse.

Cost: £3,500. :)

[Arthur Little]

In June 1967 my parents purchased a nice 3 bed semi with attached garage, fronting on to York Racecourse.

Cost: £3,500. :)

Aye ... changed days alright! Away back in 1934 - five years before my first wife was born - her parents bought a *2-bedroom, detached bungalow for the princely sum of £600. Exactly thirty-four years later, her mother - by then, widowed and badly crippled with Rheumatoid Arthritis - sold her bungalow for the going rate of £3,000, to be cared for by us. :rolleyes:

Suffice to say, *that house nowadays, :yeahthat: would fetch upwards of 200 grand! :omg: Frightening!

[grahamw48]

Aye those were the days to buy.

:)

Thing is though....it was cars that were really expensive then.

In the early 50s my parents first house (2 up 2 down terrace) cost them £495.

Only a 2 or 3 years later a brand new little Austin A30 cost them ALSO ...£495. :cwm24: